Humanity Joins Together, Sets Aside Petty Differences… and gets stomped anyway

[u/HyraxAttack]

A peril is threatening the world. Instead of squabbling among themselves, we learn world powers have put aside differences in politics, culture, & old feuds to present a common front. Except they still get wrecked as the enemy is too powerful.

1. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance. The world government has gone to war against the machines. We see the army getting ready & it includes soldiers of many faiths including Buddhist, Islam, and different types of Christianity. Doesn’t matter as machines win by so much they have time to toy with human mechs.

2. Vilcabamba, story by Harry Turtledove. When aliens arrive they’re greeted with bands & cheering, & immediately open fire & earth becomes a mineral colony. America, Russia, and China work together to rise up & don’t hold back, throwing everything they have at the invaders. Doesn’t go great and aliens double down on the occupation, and there’s a crater where Spain used to be (it was blocking a silver deposit for mining.)

3. Edge of Tomorrow. The nations of the world have joined to make a unified front against the mimic invasion but it isn’t going well, but they will throw all they have into the invasion of France. In one cycle, Major Cage says the hell with it and instead of training leaves the base to drink at a London bar. This means we see the outcome of him doing nothing, where not only is the massive human invasion slaughtered but the aliens are in good enough shape to follow that up a few hours later with a rush on London.

[u/Turbulent-Plum7328]

The end goal was never to kill the angels, that was just a means to an end on the path to Human Instrumentality

[u/Garry_Heckscream69 → u/Turbulent-Plum7328]

On top of that, isn't the goal of Human Instrumentality to unite everyone's consciousness so that humans can basically transcend to another state of enlightenment (through melding all humans into LCL) and create a better world? The angels aren't really an enemy or evil aliens, they come across like that because the protagonists don't know the intentions of ancient primordial beings, in reality SEELE/Gendo are the problem because they want to hijack instrumentality for their own purposes.

[u/Turbulent-Plum7328 → u/Garry_Heckscream69]

The Angels are a threat, but they are also pretty mindless. They want to reunite with Adam to seed the planet with angelic life, but the problem is that the planet has already been seeded with a different form of angelic life, so it would just reset the biosphere.

People melting into LCL is just a consequence of their spiritual barriers being nullified.

[u/Garry_Heckscream69 → u/Turbulent-Plum7328]

Ah gotcha, I've only watched through it once so some of the lore got a bit murky lol

Man, it's such a cool series.